MNRK Music Group President/CEO Chris Taylor Resigns
MNRK Songs Team president/CEO Chris Taylor is resigning from his create-up effective June 28, the organization declared Monday (June 3). Taylor, who will be succeeded by COO Sean Stevenson, is having the company’s artist administration division with him.
Primarily primarily based in New York, Stevenson will start off major MNRK on July 1. He was promoted to COO in July 2022 proper following beforehand serving as government vp/GM.
“We want Chris the very best in his potential endeavors,” explained Stevenson in a assertion. “He’s been a great leader and companion in excess of the several years, and I seem forward to continuing the expansion of MNRK with the complete staff.”
MNRK’s artist management roster now incorporates Powfu, Lights, The Afghan Whigs, Diana Gordon Arkells, Delilah Montagu, Daniel Lanois, Alice Ivy, Robert Finley, The Wild Feathers and Terrific Fantastic High-high-quality Okay, amongst the other acts.
Taylor joined MNRK, at the time identified as Leisure One (eOne), in 2016 to run the audio division. As element of the eOne crew, he was linked in all round approach and the company’s sale to Hasbro in 2020 for $4 billion. In 2021, Hasbro sold the songs division to Blackstone for a claimed $385 million and eOne Music was renamed MNRK Tunes Group.
Taylor has been named to Billboard‘s Indie Electricity Players checklist a quantity of circumstances.
MNRK’s artist roster requires Substantial on Fire, Underoath, Ace Frehley, Kash Doll, Fox Lake and Pop Evil it also distributes the Dualtone Tunes Group and Very final Gang imprints. On the publishing facet, it boasts specials with these varieties of songwriters as Lauren Religion, Destiny Rogers and 9am. In accordance to a press launch, the company’s publishing catalog consists of 54,000 music tracks.